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28 manuscript pages and one plate showing parts of a water and steam friction apparatus.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches in electricity. —eighteenth series'.

Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 26 January 1843. Read 2 February 1843.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843.

Reference number
PT/27/3
Earliest possible date
25 January 1843
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
29 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Paper, 'Experimental researches in electricity, eighteenth series' by M [Michael] Faraday, 25 January 1843, PT/27/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_27_3/paper-experimental-researches-in-electricity-eighteenth-series-by-m-michael-faraday, accessed on 24 January 2026

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